The receipt showed a withdrawal from a personal savings account, not a transfer out of the Heckert Auto Repair business account.

Dale had taken nine hundred fifteen dollars out of his own life savings four days before I gave him my written resignation.

The bottom line carried a special instruction stamp: Ninety-one thousand five hundred uncounted copper cents.

Behind me, a metal drawer rattled in the dark tool bay.

Dale came into the doorway holding an oil filter strap wrench.

His gray work shirt was open at the neck, showing his thick throat.

He went still when he saw the white paper in my hand.